The New York position reports directly to the East Coast Executive Director and at times the CEO and Senior Vice President of Operations. The Nashville position reports directly to the Senior Vice President of Operations and at times the CEO.

Admin/Event Planning Summer Internship Available in New York City T.J. Martell Foundation East Coast Region

Internship Information

The T.J. Martell Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising money for leukemia, cancer and AIDS research. Our internship program allows the opportunity to explore the administrative planning side events as well as interact with high and low profile music industry professionals. Interns assist with East Coast events such as the New York Golf Classic, Rock ‘n Bowl, New York Wine Dinner & Auction, Family Day, Martell in Miami, Women of Influence, the New Jersey Jazz Dinner and the Annual New York Honors Gala.

We are proud to announce that the T.J. Martell Foundation made this year’s Classy 100 list, an annual compilation of the growing nonprofits on Classy, the world’s leading online fundraising platform for social enterprises. Classy released in February the 2016 Classy 100 using a proprietary growth score calculation as the basis for recognition. The organizations that represent the top one hundred growth organizations this year on Classy were generated through a calculated score that took into consideration revenue growth from three areas: monthly revenue growth on Classy above the platform baseline, year-over-year revenue growth on Classy, and overall revenue size on Classy.

“Scaling an organization is extremely hard work, whether you’re running a for-profit company or a nonprofit organization,” said Scot Chisholm, CEO and co-founder of Classy. “However, growth in the nonprofit sector isn’t celebrated in the same way as it is in the for-profit sector. At Classy we believe that revenue growth is an important metric for both sectors, as it represents the ability to attract and maintain new customers or supporters year over year. The Classy 100 represents a group of social good organizations who have experienced growth by delivering a world-class giving experience to their supporters year in and year out.”

To be included in the Classy 100, organizations needed to be transacting on Classy for at least January 2016—December 2016. Other criteria included at least $50K in revenue on Classy in 2016, counting transactions in all 12 months; at least $10K in revenue on Classy in 2015; and at least 25 percent year-over-year revenue growth on Classy from 2015 to 2016. The organizations recognized this year span all causes and sizes, bound together by their consistent revenue growth on the Classy platform.

About Classy

Classy is the world’s leading fundraising platform for social enterprises with the goal of solving social problems more effectively and efficiently. Since launching in 2011, Classy has helped more than 3,000 social enterprises including Oxfam, World Food Program USA, and National Geographic to raise hundreds of millions of dollars. Classy also hosts the Collaborative, a 3-days summit and awards ceremony, that brings together impactful social enterprises and celebrates achievements in the sector. Based in San Diego, CA, Classy employs a staff of over 200 people and was recognized by Fast Company in 2016 as one of the world’s 10 Most Innovative Companies for Social Good. Classy was also recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the 10 Most Brilliant Companies for Social Impact in 2016 and listed as a “Rising Star” in the first-ever Forbes Cloud 100 list in 2016. Classy is backed by investors including JMI, Mithril and Salesforce Ventures. For more information, visit www.classy.org or follow Classy on Twitter: @Classy.

The T.J. Martell Foundation is deeply saddened by the news that Kitty Moon Emery has passed away. She was a dear friend, mentor and one of the greatest women in our Nashville community. She was a special board member and volunteer for the T.J. Martell Foundation. Our hearts and prayers goes to her husband Pat during this sad time.

Erin Andrews is a Fox NFL reporter and the co-host of “Dancing With The Stars.” She is also now a cervical cancer survivor, who is urging other women to get screened.

She recently revealed to Sports Illustrated’s The MMQB that she went to in for a routine checkup in June 2016 and found out after additional testing that she had cervical cancer, and would need surgery as soon as possible.

Known for her incredible work ethic and love of football, she returned to work just days after her surgery and is now cancer-free. “Everyone kept telling me, ‘You’re so strong, for going through all of this, for holding down a job in football, for being the only woman on the crew,’ ” Andrews says. “Finally I got to the point where I believed it too. ‘Hey, I have cancer, but dammit, I am strong, and I can do this.’ ”

We commend Erin for being an inspiration to other women and cancer survivors.

Every year, our funded researchers meet to present their cancer and AIDS research findings to our Scientific Advisory Committee at our Annual Scientific Consortium. This year’s meeting will take place later this week in Nashville. The Chairman of our Scientific Advisory Committee is Donald J. Tindall, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and a former Martell funded prostate cancer research doctor.

“I am looking forward to the T.J. Martell Foundation Annual Scientific Consortium,” says Dr. Tindall. “For the past 15 years this has been one of my favorite scientific meetings, because it brings together many of the world’s best scientists and clinician investigators. I have always been inspired by the high quality of research findings that are presented and the game-changing collaborations that are developed during this meeting. I am optimistic that 2017 will bring new discoveries for the eradication of leukemia, cancer and AIDS.”

For more information about our scientific research programs, please click here.

September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and we are proud to fund the outstanding research of Dr. David Spriggs, who has worked with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, one of the best hospitals in the world, for over twenty years.

“In addition to the daily care of women with gynecologic cancers, I run clinical trials that are testing new, targeted drugs, and oversee a small research laboratory looking for answers to such questions as why certain tumors resist drug treatment and how genes can affect the development of tumors,” says Dr. Spriggs.

The David Spriggs Lab has focused its research in the area of ovarian cancer and drug resistance. Ovarian cancer is unique in that newly diagnosed disease is almost uniformly sensitive to chemotherapy yet nearly all patients will eventually succumb to resistant disease. The focus has been primarily directed at transcriptional and post transcriptional regulation.

Watch Dr. Spriggs as he is featured on our latest video, A Glorious Chorus, and check out our Upcoming Events to support a cancer research fundraiser in your area to allow us to continue funding the excellent work of Dr. Spriggs and our other research doctors.

That was how Tony Martell of Madison, NJ summed up his deep loss following the death of his wife, Vicky Martell, on Saturday night, Feb. 20, at their home on Garfield Avenue following a long illness. Mrs. Martell was 88.

Tony Martell said many people were unaware of his wife’s key role in the foundation. “She worked hard,” he remarked.

“I like to think that she and my son are together. If there’s a heaven — and I know there is — they’re there.”

Over the years, the foundation the couple named for their son has raised more than $270 million for leukemia, cancer and AIDS research — which has been successfully leveraged into several billion dollars in additional funding from larger funding sources.

Vicky and Tony Martell also have been closely connected with St. Vincent Martyr Church. Mrs. Martell, described as an “enormously talented singer,” served the church as choirmaster for some 25 years, leading four choirs.

But that was not the whole of Vicky Martell’s dedication to the church, Tony Martell remembered.

“She was so devoted to the church. She bought choir robes. She bought the church a Clavinova,” a digital piano that also is capable of imitating the sounds of a large array of instruments, such as strings.

St. Vincent Martyr School was “enthralled” by the church’s Clavinova, “so she bought them one,” Tony Martell said, adding, “She bought 1,000 hymnals for the church. She put a new sound system in the church.

“She did so much. Whatever the church needed, she was at the table to give.

“I used to call her a plainclothes nun.”

Mr. and Mrs. Martell knew one another for 66 years — and were married for 64 of them.

The couple both hailed from the Scranton, Pa., area. She was not only a remarkable singer, but a talented trumpet player in a big band, and she immediately captivated Tony Martell, who worked in those days at a radio station.

“The first night I had a date with her,” he said, “I told her I was going to marry her.”

Through the T.J. Martell Foundation, as well as private efforts, the couple labored for four decades to improve the lives of countless cancer patients and their families. As Mrs. Martell grew ill, it was not always easy, but “she never complained,” Tony Martell said.